The growth in endpoint and edge storage will placed on them. By the end of 2025, over 80% favor solid state, while the core continues to of the enterprise bytes shipped into the core have a voracious appetite for the economical and edge will continue to be HDD bytes when bytes that hard disk drives and tape provide. compared to SSDs and other NVM Enterprises will use a mix of disk drives, SSDs, technologies (Figure 11). flash, and tape to satisfy the performance, management, and archive demands being Figure 11 - Share Worldwide Byte Shipments into the Enterprise Core and Edge by Storage Media Type Share Worldwide Byte Shipments into the Enterprise Core and Edge by Storage Media Type 100% 90% 80% 70% HDD 60% 50% SSD 40% NVM-NAND 30% 20% 10% 0% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Source: Data Age 2025, sponsored by Seagate with data from IDC Global DataSphere, Nov 2018 By the %of the enterprise bytes shipped end of 2025, into the core and edge will over 80 continue to be HDD bytes. IDC White Paper I Doc# US44413318 I November 2018 The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core I 15
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